CO2calc

CO2calc is an easy-to-use software program that enables you to calculate the carbonate system parameters. It's based on the original CO2SYS program with added constants, data tagging and calculations for air-sea CO2 fluxes.

Installing this tool is a fast and simple job that shouldn't impose any difficulties. As far as the interface is concerned, CO2calc adopts a normal window with a neatly organized structure, where all you have to do is input information.

This revolves around the physical data (salinity, temperature, pressure), carbonates, nutrient information, adjusted conditions, and air-see CO2 flux.

What's more, you can change the default constant preferences when it comes to the CO2 constants, KHSO4, pH scale, boron total, air-sea flux, and windspeed units.

Results are generated with one click, and you can check out the results at input and adjusted conditions, as well as export details to Google Earth, ARC/Map or plot data format (.txt). Plus, you can later load these files to make calculations in batch mode.

We haven't experienced any stability issues in our tests, thanks to the fact that CO2calc didn't hang, crash or display error messages. It had a good response time and minimal impact on computer performance, using low CPU and memory.

To sum it up, CO2calc offers a fast and simple solution to calculate the carbonate system parameters, and it can used by anyone.